The History of An Issuance Co.

Foundation of AIC

We have not already been specified when we founded AIC, though members who founded it still
remain. We forget it. We judge from the date of publication of the Oldest guide book which still
remains that it is October or November 1993. We decided Japanese
Company Name "An Shuppan" in no time. But deciding English Company
Name had rough passage. We could not decide the word according to
"Shuppan". Finally, because peculiar name was "An", we didn't decided
to use "Publish" but "Issuance." So, we use confusing abbreviation
"AIC."

Construction of the office building of our company

The beginning February 1994, we construct the office building of our
company in the computer terminal room for undergraduate students of
Department of Earth and Planetary Physics, University of Tokyo. This
office building is virtual one.

In that time, World Wide Web was not popular means for release private
products. Moreover, in those days, WWW was looked on as an enemy in
our community because of transferring large size data using the
Internet. But we didn't have enough skill for running anonymous FTP
server, which is popular means for release private products.

In these reasons, we cannot release our private products for public
use. At the time, we had already released about 5 guide books. They
were only released to local users in the computer terminal room in
electric way. Of course, we distributed paper output to local
users.

Public Release of Web Pages

May 1994, creating Web Page was the vogue for undergraduate students of
Department of Earth and Planetary Physics. We also created Web
Pages. However, those Web Pages were only introduction of our
activities. We were open to the public our guide books et cetera. We
were ashamed to say that we exhibited these Web Pages for 4 years, we didn't
change them.

Local Release of Geophysics Dictionary

Autumn of 1994, Geophysics Dictionary was created by the Department of Earth and Planetary Physics
University of Tokyo editing Geophysics Dictionary Committee. This
committee was organized by not only members who are belong to AIC. This
dictionary was released in local NetNews of Department of Earth and
Planetary Physics University of Tokyo. In this time, this dictionary
was not product of AIC. In cooperation with Dr. Koketsu, Earthquake
Research Institute University of Tokyo, it was released to public in
anonymous FTP server at ERI.

Incidentally, in that time, Geophysics Dictionary is very small and
only in used by Wnn4 environment.

Recognition of Standard Environment

April 1995, Sugiura Iori who administored "Standard Environment" graduated
Department of Earth and Planetary Physics University of Tokyo. He
remained construction kit of "Standard Environment" in virtual office
building of AIC. In lecture on using computer system for undergraduate
3rd grades, this kit is introduced. As a result of this introduction,
"Standard Environment" is recognized as the work of AIC by members of
Department of Earth and Planetary Physics.

We released the last version of construction kit of "Standard
Environment" on April 1999. Since the computer terminal room for
undergraduate students will have renewal, undergraduate 3rd grade
students will last students who use this environment.

We don't decide whether we help for constructing new environment at
new terminal room.

Global Release of Geophysics Dictionary

Geophysics Dictionary is enriched by members of AIC and released to
fj.sources on July 1997. Newest version of Geophysics Dictionary is
the one of August 1998. But this version is beta version. Now, you can
get from http://www.chibutsu.org/jisho/.

Cooperation to running Japan Chibutsu Club

April 1999, Japan Chibutsu Club is founded. We cooperate to building
and running computer system of Japan Chibutsu Club. Now we are moving
our virtual office building to the computer system of Japan Chibutsu
Club. And, we reconstruct our Web pages.